CIMIT’s Kennedy Award goes to Team Developing Plug-and-Play

November 15, 2006  LiveData CEO, Jeffrey Robbins, and the CIMIT Medical Device PnP Program team were recipients of the sixth annual Edward M. Kennedy Award for Healthcare Innovation. John Cullinane, LiveData's Chairman, accepted the award on behalf of LiveData at the CIMIT Innovation Congress, held in Boston November 13–14.

The CIMIT Medical Device Plug-and-Play initiative, or MD PnP, is headed by Julian M. Goldman, MD, of Massachusetts General Hospital.  MD PnP technology is designed to ensure interoperability of systems in the OR and other hospital areas. That means that all devices and electronic systems are linked, so that information is exchanged and mistakes are minimized.

“Each year there are accidents and unnecessary deaths in operating rooms,” said Dr. Goldman. “Each OR has many kinds of electronic systems, many of which don’t interact with each other. One of our key goals is to make sure all medical device systems communicate, and create an international standard so that planners and administrators have guidelines that will enable them to create a failsafe hospital infrastructure.”

About CIMIT

CIMIT, the Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology, is a non-profit consortium of Boston area teaching hospitals, engineering schools and research laboratories where clinicians, engineers, industry leaders, scientists and the military, working in interdisciplinary teams to generate promising, leading-edge translational technologies for healthcare. The wealth of resources in the scientific, clinical and technological communities in the Boston area makes the CIMIT collaborative unique, providing investigators with the opportunity to most effectively work together to explore novel ideas for patient care.

About LiveData

Specializing in real-time data integration and display, LiveData builds state-of-the-art systems for healthcare, utility, manufacturing, and government organizations. LiveData technology brings together data from any number of sources and presents it as meaningful information on easy-to-read graphic displays. Leading medical institutions, including Massachusetts General Hospital, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and New York-Presbyterian Hospital, have selected LiveData OR-Dashboard™ to enhance patient safety, improve team communication and streamline perioperative workflow. Founded in 1991, LiveData is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.